Beginning MS Agent: Part 2

All Agents come with standard animations, such as "load" or "hide". If you create your own Agent, you can add custom animations. In the first tutorial, we used an animation in the line "Assistant.Show". This is the animation for opening the character. For the Merlin character, the following animations exist:

* - These animations are looping animations. You must use the command "Assistant.Stop" before using another animation.

For space constraints, I have not listed descriptions of the animations. To see what they do, try them out. Only certain actions can be used in the form "Assistant.Show". Most of the animations will need to be accessed like this:

You may have noticed that a lot of the animations have a return animation. This is provided to allow a smooth transition from one animation back to the neutral position (RestPose). Animations allow you to add life to your character, for example:

If you decide to create your own agent, it is a good idea to include most of these animations in your character. Only some of them are required by the Agent Character Editor (more to come in a later tutorial).